Word: accomplish
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Even without major expenditure, however, Harvard can accomplish a great deal to justify its claim to intellectual and educational leadership. John L. Holland, Director of Research for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, commented recently that "expensive colleges may not necessarily be the best," and that the "productivity of schools depends "more on the quality of its incoming students than on any attributes of the college itself." But high-quality students matriculate in Cambridge, and still may not gain the most valuable education...
...bureaucratic gingerbread of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Legislature has patched up the holes in the Constitution with occasional adhesive tape and bobby pins, but still refuses to recondition its whole structure. Since the political atmosphere on the Hill fosters hesitancy and inertia, only a Constitutional Convention can accomplish complete and intelligent reform of the State's government...
...pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal lives but perhaps to accomplish something more." What is that evasive "something more?" Poetry as religion, in the manner of Malraux's view of art? Poetry as an existential pacifier, good for stoics of all ages? Or has Playwright MacLeish now fastened on the poet that blasphemous tribulation he visited upon...
...reports of Conant and others have shown, the need is for even more than keeping pace with expanding population. With a President and an HEW Secretary who are committed to "do things" in the field of education, the Kennedy Administration may overcome traditional Congressional foot-dragging and accomplish a great deal. A great deal very clearly must be done...
...even a wonder budget will accomplish no good whatever if the ways in which it is spent and administered 'are not dramatically changed. The question of emphasis is certainly the most talked-of and possibly the most significant of all. Both the Draper and Senate Foreign Relations Committees feel that military aid has been over-stressed in recent years, not necessarily because too much is spent on it, but because the Administration has given too much importance to its value in policy planning. By its very nature, this kind of assistance sets up military hierarchies in countries to which...